Signtrust Business Division
Our Trust Center
The trust center: essential for digital signatures
The system of digital signatures cannot function without trust centers. The system requires an authority that generates the key pair for the signature card in a secure environment. Specifically, this involves assigning an individual to a key pair, and certifying this fact to other parties.
A certification authority is responsible for certifying the assignment of an individual to a key. The system of digital signatures relies on the existence of authorities that can perform the mandatory assignment of a key pair to an individual. Without the added security of such a system, users of electronic communications lack mutual trust and can never be sure of a given third party's identity or of the integrity of any data they receive. In a system based on digital signatures, the job of creating trust between the parties to electronic communications falls to the trust centers.
A trust center's task as a certification authority entails confirming that a given public key belongs to the owner of a specific key pair. To establish this ownership, trust centers obtain reliable proof of identity from their customers. A trust center will not issue a customer with a signature card and certificates until it has established the customer's identity beyond all doubt.
Our Trust Center: Security is key
Signtrust Business Division is housed in special, heavily protected bunker premises. Extensive technical and structural precautions make unauthorized access impossible. All electronic access control systems are fully redundant and failsafe. Barriers that admit only one person at a time restrict access to selected employees performing essential tasks. All employees must undergo regular security checks. This is how we guarantee compliance with the legal requirements for digital signatures.Signtrust Memberships
Common PKI
T7
BITKOM
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